Whee.

[wombat1138]

Well, now that DS14 (and probably the rest of the Trilogy) has vanished from Schnoogle as well as Google caches, I can finally stop semi-compulsively trying to track down bits of Tanith Lee in that chapter. (There may well've been more Tanith elsewhere. One chapter was quite enough to work on.)

Pretty good timing, actually-- Kyouken 5.1 just arrived yesterday, so hopefully I can start on the raw transcription within the next few days. Maybe. We'll see. (Vexed muttering that Kyouken 5.2 was out of stock... guess I'll have to find another source and re-order.)

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[swlover.livejournal.com]

Awww, I had just started reading DS14 when it got pulled. Not because I was interested in the story per se, but I was interested in some of your comments about the Tanith Lee similarities. Unfortunately, now, I'll be left to wonder how in the world it resolves - but I think I can handle it. It's not really worth trying to track down and read. :p I think I'd much rather go pull my few Tanith books and re-read them.

As far as getting your doujinshi - happy dance, happy dance! I hope you'll like it as much as I did. I have quite a bit of confidence that you'll find Kyouken 5.2 eventually, and if you don't, please remember I have a friend who said I could e-mail you her scans. Of course, I can't guarantee the quality of the scans - I've still not looked at them. But, if you want... :)

[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

Generally I've found that scans don't have nearly enough resolution to pick out the kanji; heck, even the original doujinshi copies barely have enough resolution to guess at some of the more complicated and/or handwritten ones.

Kyouken 5.1 has me feeling rather sorry for oro-chan; he just looks so completely hapless during most of Kaoru's warmup that it kinda feels like shouta molestation on a psychological level. He practically looks *terrified*, far beyond his bewildered but ultimately willing cooperation with Tomoe in "A Distant Thunder"... though really, their ages there weren't that much greater than the theoretical ones here.

Though what I'm really starting to wonder now is if he thinks he's fourteen years old again, why doesn't he expect Hiko to be lurking around somewhere, perhaps having set up this entire scenario as an elaborate practical joke?